alternate
/ˈɔl.tɚ.nət/ adjectif C1En français : alternatif, alternative
- Happening by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; first one and then the other (repeatedly).
- Alternating; (of e.g. a pair of tinctures which a charge is coloured) succeeding in turns, or (relative to the field) counterchanged.
- Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second. · the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc.
- Other; alternative. · Hyperlinked text is displayed in alternate color in a Web browser.· He lives in an alternate universe and an alternate reality.
- Distributed singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence · Many trees have alternate leaf arrangement (e.g. birch, oak and mulberry).
Dans la bibliothèque
“My dear sir,” cried Holmes, “there cannot be the least doubt in the world that it has been written by two persons doing alternate words.
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